In an event that attracts healthy sponsorship and provides an ideal stage to showcase the future stars of the sport, players will be ruing mother nature as they will be left wondering what might have been following the abandonment of play at the Burnside complex.

As Labour Weekend draws in, all eyes will be centred on the star-studded line-up converging in Dunedin for the prestigious NEV 10,000 Invitational Singles, to be held over four action-packed days, commencing Friday.

Despite battling a gastro bug for most of the weekend, Australian heavy-hitter Aaron Wilson was in devastating form as he coasted to the prestigious 27th North East Valley 10,000 Invitational Singles title over Labour weekend, pocketing $5000 in the process and cementing his reputation as one of the world’s most watched singles exponents.